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Conforming, Internalizing, Looking Away: Social Conformity and Its Effects
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Conforming, Internalizing, Looking Away: Social Conformity and Its Effects

April 19, 20226 min read

Social Conformity is a type of social influence that alters the belief or behavior of an individual in order to fit into a group. It

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The Experiments of Social Conformity
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The Experiments of Social Conformity

April 15, 20226 min read

In the early 1960s, Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram began what would become one of social psychology’s most famed and chilling experiments. Milgram began his

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Johan Galtung’s work
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Johan Galtung’s work

March 18, 20226 min read

“Peace appeals to the hearts; studies to the brain. Both are needed, indeed indispensable. But equally indispensable is a valid link between brain and heart.

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Johan Galtung: healing the world from war
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Johan Galtung: healing the world from war

March 18, 20226 min read

A peaceful world can often look like an impossible dream. Especially lately. We may feel overwhelmed, helpless, and powerless when we read news about what

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Understanding Intersectionality
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Understanding Intersectionality

March 18, 2022March 18, 20226 min read

Exploring the word, its meaning, and its impact on the world. We live in an exceptional historical moment, characterised by so much violence, conflict, and social

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Johan Galtung – The Father of Peace Studies
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Johan Galtung – The Father of Peace Studies

March 18, 20226 min read

Johan Galtung born in Oslo on October 24, 1930, is a Norwegian sociologist and mathematician. In 1959 he founded the Oslo Peace Research Institute (PRIO)

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The Father of Peace Studies
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The Father of Peace Studies

March 18, 20226 min read

In 1930, an individual born in Oslo, Norway, would go on to lead the academic field of peace and conflict studies, writing over 160 books

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Intersectionality
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Intersectionality

March 18, 20226 min read

“Intersectionality is a lens through which you can see where power comes and collides, where it interlocks and intersects”, Kimberlè Crenshaw   In recent years

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Reality of social media
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Reality of social media

February 19, 2022February 19, 20226 min read

As the use of social networks increases, they generate a virtual reality. This means of communication, in turn, generates digital identities, giving rise to a

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The Cost of War, Peace and Covid
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The Cost of War, Peace and Covid

February 19, 2022March 18, 20225 min read

Covid-19 has seen the world change. Countries were plunged into recessions, many people found themselves losing family breadwinners and business owners were left unable to

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Are we losing our critical thinking skills?
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Are we losing our critical thinking skills?

February 19, 2022March 18, 20225 min read

Data from Backlingo shows that globally, the average time a person spends on social media a day is 2 hours 24 minutes. 4.48 billion people

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Fact checking
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Fact checking

December 17, 20215 min read

Starting from the assumption that “independence” is the very essence of information democracy, autonomy in judgments should be the first requirement of free information. But

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What is Watchdog?
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What is Watchdog?

December 17, 20215 min read

A watchdog is an autonomous, non-governmental organisation, person or group that is dedicated to holding governments, organisations and media outlets accountable and to assessing their

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The quest for truthful news: fact-checking and watchdog journalism
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The quest for truthful news: fact-checking and watchdog journalism

December 17, 20215 min read

What is fact-checking? Fact-checking is a journalistic term that indicates the work of ascertaining the events and the data used in a text or speech. This

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Alternative Narrative
December 17, 20217 min read

To investigate more in-depth the importance of fat checking It is fundamental to move beyond recent narratives of “facts” and “fake news” and immediate political

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The Echo Chamber
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The Echo Chamber

September 26, 20216 min read

Have you ever had the experience of only recognizing relevant information that supports your way of thinking about the world while being distrustful of information

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“Too Soon”… Limitless of Humor
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“Too Soon”… Limitless of Humor

September 20, 2020September 21, 20204 min read

This year has been significantly rich in episodes of violence associated with humour, and not only related to physical violence. Some people can be highly

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The CHANs (part 1)
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The CHANs (part 1)

September 19, 2020September 19, 20206 min read

Suffocating eco-chamber The anonymous website 4chan was created in 2003 by the American internet entrepreneur Christopher Poole. The website was originally fashioned on the “mold”

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The attention machine
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The attention machine

September 19, 20205 min read

Attention has been defined as the “notice taken of someone or something; the regarding of someone or something as interesting or important”. An object, situation

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The implications of filter bubbles in social media and the impact on the society
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The implications of filter bubbles in social media and the impact on the society

September 19, 20207 min read

Daily routine: We wake up in the morning, we have breakfast and we open our smartphones to receive daily news about the world surrounding us.

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How “social media phenomena” influence social behavior: “pizzagate” conspiracy theory 
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How “social media phenomena” influence social behavior: “pizzagate” conspiracy theory 

September 19, 20206 min read

Currently, in the IDare community, we are dealing with some phenomena which are occurring nowadays within social media and all kinds of online communication, and

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Do Unto Others
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Do Unto Others

September 18, 2020September 20, 20204 min read

America’s mood was going through a period of change during the 60s. Televisions could be found by then in a growing number of American households.

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The dark web
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The dark web

September 18, 20206 min read

The Internet is not just what we see, it mostly is what we do not see at all. It is estimated that while what we

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Tor controversial history
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Tor controversial history

September 18, 20206 min read

Tor Project is a collaborative and open-source software that was born with the aim to create secure and anonymous connections for all the users looking

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